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Dwayne Jarrett will not miss any games and has to pay about $5300 to charity. This seems almost too reasonable, but I am not complaining. There is a legitimate question about whether this will lead to recruits being wooed with good off-campus housing (one of the more meaningful complaints posted on Bruins Nation, to give credit where it’s due) but I would argue that this is different. (I’d also argue that this is more compelling for people who had to pay Westwood rents).

The difference is this: Jarrett was already an established student and player, and he was already Leinart’s room-mate. Plainly the rules were broken, but it’s hard to read anything more into this than the parental sheltering of a star quarterback who just happens to be buddies with his best receiver. It’s right that Jarrett makes some restitution, especially since he was getting a premium out of his housing stipend, but it’s hard to see this in the same light as the Bush housing scandal (remember that?) or punching people…